Hey, John Doolittle’s house was raided by the FBI last Friday! As usual, the gears of justice have turned quickly and decisively in dealing with the crooked lawmakers who enabled Jack Abramoff. MORE »

To: Lamar Alexander
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The horrible noises heard after hours at the newish Rock and Roll Hotel — which is a bar with live music, not a hotel — are not just rats or people having sex or other people being mugged outside. According to The Hill, the club is actually haunted by actual ghost demons who literally scare the crap out of employees.

At the end of one night recently, a female employee paid a visit to the ladies’ room. While she was in a stall, someone else entered the restroom. Thinking it was a member of the clean-up crew, she told the intruder to return later. The person didn’t listen, and closed the next stall door. The employee heard the toilet in the other stall flush. But when she checked, no one was there.

As we know from the Bible, this is because the rock club used to be a funeral home. MORE »

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Outgoing Roll Call gossip Mary Ann Akers is off to a great new start as the new WashingtonPost.com gossip. Her farewell to Roll Call e-mail charmingly revealed all of her sources, because she put them in the CC spot instead of the BCC spot. (Note to aspiring gossip columnists: BCC means Blind Carbon Copy, which means everybody can’t see everybody else who gets the e-mail.)

And people are furious. One committee aide told The Hill: “It violates your confidentiality …. It’s their private e-mail. People don’t want their e-mail out in public. This whole thing burned the living shit out of me as it revealed me and all the other ‘leakers.’ …. Anyone who is on there, I’m sure they’re pissed.”

Two lawmakers are on the e-mail list: Congressmen Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Patrick Kennedy (D-Drunky). If you have this farewell letter from Mary Ann, send it to us at once!

UPDATE! Akers’ official response is after the jump. Due to a hilarious sitcom-style bicoastal mix-up, one of your editors in fact HAD received this email, but ignored it due to the fact that we get emails from people who forget to BCC pretty much daily.

Burning her sources on her way out [The Hill]

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Is there a single government staffer doing any work today? According to Craigslist Casual Encounters, the answer is No. MORE »

The Hill’s blog has generally served as a repository of barely-rewritten press blasts from the politicians whose releases clog our inbox each day. But thanks to Republican/Libertarian Congressional Candidate Steve Finger (running in New York’s solidly Democratic 11th District), we have a policy we can all get behind. What does the aspiring Congressman think of Gay Marriage? MORE »

Under the Dome columnist Emily Heil took that one extra step that separates her from us, and called George Allen’s campaign about that little rumor we posted that claimed Allen’s dog’s name was Sambo. MORE »

Someone forwarded us this Hill column about Katherine Harris (we have the grassroots equivalent of Google News alerts for her). Frankly, as far as Harris items go, it doesn’t quite meet the standard she’s set for herself. As an opportunity to trash The Hill, though, it’s beautiful. Because the lovely and talented Betsy Rothstein is either purposefully misrepresenting shit or she’s just kinda dumb.

You want details? We got details.

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From The Hill’s lead editorial yesterday: MORE »

Representative Roscoe Bartlett writes a very important post on The Hill Blog: MORE »